.....The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called the government. They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved.....

Rob, ooooh, what amazing and beautiful pictures. Is this near your home where these critters live? I thought that they were so pretty, sometimes certain pictures make me want to gaze and gaze.

I remember Mick put a beautiful picture on our forum of a tree taken at sunup, his dog was in the picture, and Abejaruco has put a couple of really cool ones in too, one of orange grove I really liked, your pictures are standing out in my mind like theirs did, no clue why, no understanding why. This only happens now and then, and it strikes me as strange.

Would you mind if I kept one of your pictures for my pictures folder? Have a wonderful and beautiful day, Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

Great pictures. I didnt know there would be so many in one spot. Here in SE Colorado we have Bobcats. Recently the numbers have been going up, and the Turkey population is going down, adn I seem to see more signs of them.

Great pics..It seems that big cat populations have been going up all over the country. Most of the big cats are also night runners and you wont see much of them in the daylight hours. We got panthers around here.. people report sightings now and then to the game and fish dept. Of course like any good government agency they deny there are any around here just like they denied any bear in the state and when a fella shot and killed one of those big black figments of his imagination they wanted to put him in jail :roll:

.....The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called the government. They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved.....

Great pics..It seems that big cat populations have been going up all over the country. Most of the big cats are also night runners and you wont see much of them in the daylight hours. We got panthers around here.. people report sightings now and then to the game and fish dept. Of course like any good government agency they deny there are any around here just like they denied any bear in the state and when a fella shot and killed one of those big black figments of his imagination they wanted to put him in jail :roll:

What is it about State Game agencies that makes them hard headed.

We had been spotting Coydogs and Coyotes in Delaware for years, but the State refused to budge on the position that there were no Coyotes in Delaware. There were even pictures printed in the paper of Coyotes running along the Beach in one of our State Parks, and the game commission said it was stray dogs.

Finally a farmer shot one that was killing his fowl, took it to the State DNRec office in the capital and dropped it on their front desk, suddenly they had a ton of press releases about Coyotes in Delaware.

They did the same thing with Bobcat, denied for years there were any left, but I had heard them and seen their tracks first hand in a tract of State land just south of here. One jumped out of a tree onto a Turkey hunter a few years ago, tore the guy up pretty bad before he managed to shoot it, all of a sudden we magically had a breeding population of Bobcat.

Pennsylvania is denying that there are Cougars in Schuylkill County, yet my Dad has a picture of one crossing a field behind his house. The game commission says "We don't know what it is, but it can't be a cougar, we don't have them around here."

I am a wildlife biologist here in Northern Utah. I mostly work on ski area expansions and how they will impact wildlife and habitat. The hottest button out there right now is lynx. We are at about the southern tip of their range (especially when I work on Colorado such as in Crested Butte).

I write 50+ page documents analyzing the impacts to this one species alone for the Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service. The sad truth, I have never seen one in the wild.

Great pics.

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After 18 months of reading and preparation, my girls finally arrived on April 11th (2006)!

i saw 2 in different locations here in western colorado this spring, not more than 55 miles from the utah border, so i dont see why you wouldnt have em thomashton, just wish i'd had my camera. btw they say the same thing about wolves here in this area and we've killed several harrasing calves